The Sun. — London, England, 1864-10-24 00:00:00

IFEBOAT SERVICES. —Daring the storms jtj of the past year the boats of the National Lifeboat Institution say, d 417 persons from different wrecks on our coasts. The Institution also expended X 13,819 3s. 2d. in the satle period on lifeboat establis hments, in addition to granting' £1,351 68. t d. as rewards for savin g 714 shipwrecked p e rsons by its lifeboats, and other mean s. The Committee of the Institution earnestly EAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy d e mands on the Institution's 1 37 lifeboat establishmen t s . Contributions are received by all the London and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphl. HEATRE ROYAL, DRURY - LANE,- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. TEAS EVENING, a new and original Farce, by Edmund Falconer, entitled T O'FLAITERTY 'S. Edmund Falconer; Messrs G. Belmore, Barrett. Fitzjames, dzc.; Miss Iludspeth, Miss E. Falconer, Mrs. 11. Vandenhoff, &a. After which, at a Quarter to Eight o'clock, Shakespere's Flay of CYMBELINC. Mr. Phelps ; Messrs. Creswi,k, 11. arston, Walter Lacy, Edmund Phelps, A. Raynor, G. F. Neville, Fitzjames, dx.; Miss Atkinson and Miss Helen ast Six—Commence at Seven. L oors open at ha f-p EIEATR E ROYAL, HAYMARKET.- Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, MADEMOISELLE DE BELLE ISLE. M es srs. Howe, Farren, Gordon, Baird, &c. , Mesdames seatrice, Ange', &c. After which, ON THE SLY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers. Gordon, &c. ; Mesdanies Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &c. And BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, TFIE KING'S BUTTERFLY. Fan fan, the King's Butterfly, Mr. Fechter. Messrs. Ryder,Wid clicomb, Ch rles, M'lntyre, Garden, Raymond, Moreland, C ifford, Collett; Misses Carlot a Leclercq, M. lienrade, E. Lavenue, and B. Lavenue. The Scenery painted by Mr. William Callcott. Doors open at 7 ; commence at half-past. The Box-office open daily from Eleven till Five. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.--. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. I addy O'Rafferty, Mr. Dominick Murray. After which, TILE bTREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J• AV. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson, 11. Forrester. U. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma Barnett, and Miss Fanny Gwyune. .DITEW THEATRE-R0 YAL, ADELPHL--. Sale Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE IRISH AMBASSADOR. Sir Patrick 0' Plerdpo,'Mr. J. Collins (with the song of "The Bold Soldier Boy"), supported by Messrs. Billington, Stuart, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, R. Romer; Mrs. Billington and Miss Henrietta Simms. After which, first time , a new ap ro p os Farce, nailed DOING BANTING. Messrs. J. Clarke, Stephenson, R. Romer; Mrs. H Lewis and Miss A. Seamen. To conclude with the celebrated strio-comic Drama, by S. Lover, Es of RORY O'MORE. Rory , Mr. John Collins, with the songs of " The Widow Machree," and " The Sprig of Shillelah. The other characters by Mr Billington, Mr Phillips, Mr Paul Bedford, Mr Stuart, Mr Stephenson, Mr C. J. Smith.; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss Kate Kelly, &c. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINENT TALENT AND COMEDY. Those celebrated artistes, Mr. and Mrs. C. Mathews, are re engaged. THIS EVENLNG, and during the week, UNDER THE ROSE. At a quarter to 13 (last five nights), Mr. Arthur Sketchley's Comedy of HOW WILL THEY GET OUT OF IT? To concludes ith Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce of WoODi.OOK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charl , s Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. On Saturday. 29th October, wall be produced a new and or:ginal Comedy Drama, in 3 acts, entitled SYBILLA ; or, STEP BY STEP. 111 OYAL STRAND THEATRE. _BA; Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, JNLIMITED CONFIDENCE. Followed by, at Eight, MIL KY W IHTE. Messrs. Craven, Style James ; Mesdamts Swanbor,mh and Manders. After which, the great Burlesque, THE MILLER AND MS MEN. Messrs. Fenton, James, and Thorne ; Mesdames Swanborough, Simpson. Johnstone, Hughes, and Carson. :SHALL COMPANY'S LS. COALS. —The LILL CO Direct from their own Collieries. Marquis'. 255. per ton. I Double 21s. per ton. Top 245. „ Deep ...........225. „ R7cll screened and delivered within five miles of their De. pots, Westbourne Park-road, W., and 17, South Wharf Paddington, W., and Maiden-lane, N. Best Coke lss. per chaldron. Terms cash. JOEIN SCOTT, Sole Ggent. T _ HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN , " Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, Can be had Every Evening of G. R GLENIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. THE LATEST EDITION of " THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening by II ENRY BROOKS, Newspaper Agent, 21, Old Cavendish street, W. . HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DA.T.—ltiorning, Bh. C.63l.—Afternoon, 9h. 34m, fo-Noßnow.-Morning, 10h. 10m.—Aft3rnoon,:10h. 48m ce a-\ MUM LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 24, 1864. Philosophical politicians have at present an in teresting opportunity of comparing the different results of two opposite systems of Government. The proper sphere of administrative interference has been very often discussed, and Englishmen are generally properly zealous of any unnecessary meddling of the State in public affairs, Trade and commerce, according to the generally received theory in this country, thrive best when most un fcttered, and the continental system of fixing prices and regulating the rise and fall of articles of daily traffic, would not be for a moment tolerated among us. There arc, however, undoubtedly exceptional cases in which the state may wisely interfere, anti either by the suspension of existing laws or the suggestion of fresh statutes may meet the exigencies of the time. The great crisis in the cotton trade was certainly one of these occasions, and although the English manufacturing market was out of the reach of official aid or assistance, yet the new and untried field which it opened to the energy and enterprise of our colonies, left room for much bene ficial stimulus by the Government. More especially was this the case in that great dependency of the British Crown in which from various causes the Administration partakes more of the arbitrary na ture of despotic Governments than of the ordinary constitutional form of our colonies. The internal development of India is very far from keeping pace with that of other parts of the British Empire ; and while the country lacks the presence of most of those qualities and possessions which encourage the growth of a country, its progress is further impeded by the remnants of ancient encumbrances and the fetters of a narrow and restricted system of policy. The evil spirit of red tapism and routine has weighed heavily on the fortunes of India, and its results have been strikingly shown in the instance of the cotton trade. The contrast we referred to is now mani fest in the state of the trade in Turkey and India. In both countries it had been virtually annihilated by the overwhelming extent of the American com petition, Both had therefore the opportunity offered to them by the sudden withrawal of that formidable rival from the scene. It would, how ever, have been naturally supposed that India would soon have distanced its competition, having the advantages of English capital. English energy, English commercial experience, and, above all, the inducement of England's intense interest in the suc cessful competition. Yet, what is the result. The supply from India has fallen far short of well-founded expectations ; its quality has been often inferior, and the cultivation has never thriven heartily it coughout the country. Turkey, on the other is estimated this year to produce, without E g y pt , from halt a million to MAO hairs of cotton ; and, should the present high prices con tinue, Turkey, will receive nearly one quarter o! the value of the whole American crop sent to this country four years back. It must be remembered that, owhig to the great difference in price, Turkey does not furnish anything like a quarter of the of cotton ; b ut h ow wise is the Ameti,taTl supply' Government that takes advantage of the crisis, and enables its own impoverished country to profit a- by the change, while at the same time ben efitting the trade of another people. Yet the natur a l vantages of Turkey are by iio nic;ans greater then d those of India. The cotton plant appears to be especially adapted to the latter etraAtry. Aa Indian journal, remarking upon this object observes, "It can be and it has been grown in every climate, ranging from that which is rainless to tracts where the annual rainfall is from 120 to 140 inches; and it thrives, not only in that rich black earth which has become identified with its name, cotton soil,' but also in the adjoining red clay which principally constitutes the rest of the agricultural soil of India." But those best qualified to judge complain that the Government will not lend a fostering hand. In Turkey the Administration, immediately after the outbreak of the American war, abolished all taxes upon cotton-growing lands for five years and busied itself in the construc tion of roads, and in giving other en couragement. In India no such assistance was given to the new and struggling trade. Mr BROWN, a gentleman well acquainted with the sub ject, has for some time past strenuously advocated the suspension of all tax on land cultivated with cotton for five years, leaving all other land-tax untouched. The benefit of this measure is intended to reach the grower, who, under existing circum• stances, is obliged to take the Bunniah's price for his cotton, in order to obtain the necessary cash for the payment of his land-tax, The authorities, how ever, maintain that such a system would be opposed to sound policy, and the Home Government has expressly forbidden the experiment to be made. Sir CHARLES WOOD has, as we know, a great ob jection to the slightest diminution or alteration of the charges on land ; his one idea of making money seems to be the receipts of the land tax collector, and every decrease of those receipts he looks upon as a loss to the national exchequer without inquiring how far other departments of revenue may have benefited by the change. One would think that the present moment, when Sir JOHN LAWRENCE is just extending the perpetual settlement to the Northwest Provinces, and thus interfering with the established routine in such matters, would be especially suitable for the change. But we fear there is little hope. Much precious time has already been lost, and what has been done for the trade has been done almost in spite of the Government, We fear that the war•tossed States of America will have leisure to recover from their convulsions and to remodel their constitutions before Sir CHARLES WOOD is convinced of the ben nefits of an enlarged and enlightened policy. The Solicitor-General has been distinguishing himself in dilating upon public affairs, and it ie only to be regretted that his ability had not a better field for its display than he found in several passages of his speech. He laboured under official responsibilities as well as Parliamentary ones in addressing his constituents this time, and perhaps those circumstances impelled him to try him too much and defend all that had been done or left undone by his colleagues, whether right or wrong , in omission or commission. First of all he alluded to American affttirs, which certainly have not con. duced much to the credit of the law officers of the Crown. No one can deny, however, that they have been the cause of great annoyance ane anxiety to them, and thus there are some allowances to be made, since they were put to an unusual test, and had to decide weighty matters unexpectedly. So far, then, all must concur in the remark of the Solicitor-General that a great many new questions have arisen of late years in these affairs, and that this war has given rise to questions " for which lawyers will search precedents and books in vain." It is also strictly true that " in endeavouring to steer a neutral course, yon have to navigate between rocks and quicksands ;" but, unfortunately for Sir R. COLLIER and his friends, they have more than once got into those dangerous quarters in their efforts to settle compli cated matters with more ingenuity than ingenuous ness. After all that has occurred, it is really too much to say that we have nothing to complain of in the decisions of the American prize courts. is notorious that these derniers resorts, as they un fortunately are, have been characterised by the grossest injustice, and at times decided in a most unprecedented manner, and it requires the acute ness of legal vision to discern the respect which the American judges have paid to the decisions of our courts. It is really idle for such remarks to be made at 011, for they cannot convince those who are able to form their own opinions, and those who are will. ing to take the other side do not need such inflated assertions. Sir R. COLLIER went at his work with a will, and shirked nothing that bore upon the matter in hand ; indeed, it almost seemed as if he fancied himself in the House, discussing some great question at issue on an occa sion of party warfare or trial of strength. His en deavours to prove that the enforcement of the Foreign Enlistment Act was very beneficial to the trading classes were most futile, and really proved the weakness of his case most completely. It is too late in the day for any one to defend or cpprove of the seizure of the Alexandra ; the voice of public opinion for once coincided with the decisions of the courts of law, and as the Solicitor-General was not in any way connected with the affair at its outset, it is quite absurd for him to come to the rescue of those who incurred such odium in the extraordinary measures relating to that vessel. An amusing inci dent occurred in this ill-timed defence, however, for the zeal of the politician got the better of the pre judiee of the profession, and rather than own the Ministers in the wrong the learned speaker declared that the law was at fault. Another discrepancy followed this fatal avowal, and the Foreign Enlist ment Act just lauded as so wonderful in its working, was admitted to be surrounded with so many difficula ties that it was deemed most expedient to compromise the affair of the rams at Birkenhead. Sir E. COLLIER attempted to show that the Government had adopted the golden rule, " Do as you would be done by," in their dealing with America. This is a very unfor tunate illustration, because it only applies to their actions with one of the belligerent parties, and cer tainly can claim no affinity in our dealings with the other. No State, large or small, would be cone tented to be treated as Eogland under her present advisers has treated the Confederate States of North America, and lawyers may exert themselves in their forensic arguments, and Parliamentary speakers may declaim with matchless logic and skilled rhetoric, but it will not do; the fact is patent to the world, and impartial and unprejudiced judges on both sides of the Atlantic will concur in the validity:of the statement that fair play has not been the characteristic of cur course of action in the struggles which have rent in twain the great Re public of the Western World. The Solicitor-Gene ral next addressed himself to the Schleswig-Holstein question, and thus rushed from Scylla to Caarybdis in good earmst, lie made a good advocate if a bad politician, for he went out of his way to take up awkward subjects so as to defend and explain away what it would have been more prudent to let alone. It is quite out of date now to declare that Earl RUSSELL'S reply to the French Emperor's invitation to a eingress was polite, although some persons had declared it was not so. Also, the triumphant assertions that it was quite right to have declined the Congress came too late now, when every one knows that the affairs of Denmark might have been getter managed, and could not have been worse conducted, if the projected nieetiog hod taken place as originally proposed. The Solicit° •General cons THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1864. alders, however, that there is no need whatever for diplomatic questions to be " overlayed with a mass of unintelligible rigmarole." Perhaps some persons might advise him to look at home and ascertain whether there might not be some very profitable alterations in that respect in the arrangements of his own profession, which are sometimes very difficult of comprehension. After saying that he would not enter into the Danish question, Sir R. COLLIER did go into it very fully, and said quite enough for the most inveterate Ministerialist to desire as to the propriety of the conduct of the Government in their difficult part. He also informed his hearers that those politicians were mistaken who thought that there were only two courses to adopt in foreign affairs, , namely, to fight or to keep the peace. There is a third, which, of course, our sapient Cabinet adopted, of " expressing an opinion." According to this showing they protested against a great wrong, and thus discharged their duty. This sounds very fine, but it must be the mere love of talking which makes people speak when they see and know that no one cares for what they are saying, and this was pretty plainly evidenced in the demeanour of Prussia when Earl RUSSELL sent forth his wonderful de spatches, and talked so glibly of honour and good feeling. Sir R. COLLIER declared that he had read all through the correspondence, and, therefore, he considered himself justified in giving an opinion upon it. This was that Earl RUSSELL'S were the best letters in it, and that the noble lord had tried to keep peace between two parties who put forward incompatible pretensions." Surely it was the duty of the law officers of the Crown to have informed the Foreign Secretary that he was attempting what was impossible in such an awk ward matter, and had better leave off in time to save his credit. The Solicitor. General also thinks that what has happened was Denmark's own fault, for not agreeing to the noble lord's proposal of 1862, and he was at some pains to show this to his hearers by his details and disclosures. It is almost amusing to notice the vehemence with which he defends the conduct and character of the Go. vernment. If they were so much in the right, it seems strange that the fact requires such immense exertion and energy to disclose it to us. It will require more teaching yet, however, before the people of this country understand that justice has been meted out in the affairs of Denmark, and if Sir R. COLLIER aspires to Le the chorus who is to explain matters he had better look to his laurels, for he has entered upon an underteking that will tax all his energies, and test his powers to the utmost, and it is not too much to say that ho will be in the need of him who said— " To speak it all requires a thousand tongues, A throat of brass, and adamantine lungs," The young Prince and Princess, in whose move ments England takes so deep an interest, have at length commenced their homeward journey. The public have followed with a kindly concern the record of their proceedings—it has watched them receive the first polite but mournful greeting of the people of Denmark—the cordial welcome of the Royal family—and has seen how the popular enthusiasm of -the loyal little nation gradually led them to forget all the wrongs and the sufferings of the stormy interval between the bridal and the return in the joy of again welcoming their beloved Princess, and in sympathising in her domestic happiness. The warmth and brilliancy of the S wedish hospitality was also especially gratifying to the English nation, who saw in it a proof not only of the popularity of their own Royal House, but of the cordial amity felt for England by her kindred people of the North—kindred in their hardihood and energy as in their patriotism and unconquer able love of freedom. King CHRISTIAN himself, whose brief tenure of the regal dignity has as yet brought him little satisfaction, must have derived much consolation from this visit of his daughter and the young Prince of WALES. Not only must he have felt the pleasure natural to a father under such circumstances, but the defeated KING who, by an ingenious mixture of the cajoleries of diplomacy with the sterner arguments of force, has been de spoiled of half hie dominions, must have been gra• tified, in some measure, by this token of respect on the part of the young Heir Apparent to the first throne of the world. It is true that the near relationship existing between them has as yet brought little profit to the Danish Monarch ; that English help has only proved a lure to guide him to defeat and d'scomfiture, to encourage him to armed resistance by the promise of active support —a promise which obtained no better fulfilment than Lord RUSSELL'S high sounding platitudes. Nevertheless, even Prussia herself must sometimes remember the near connection of the Danish KING with the future English QUEEN, and although we cannot detect much moderation in her proceedings, possibly she might proceed to even greater extre. mities without that salutary remembrance. King CHRISTIAN indeed seems fated to find in the bril liant destinies of his children some consolation for his misfortunes as a Monarch. He has no reason to esteem the Royal station to be especially enviable, but it is only natural that he should feel pleasure in the exalted fortunes of his children. His second son, who seemed to have no other fate before him than that of an obscure member of a retired family, has been called to rule over a distinguished if not a powerful State, while his two eldest daughters, whose beauty and ac complishments welt fit them for romantic fortunes, have the prospect of sharing two of the first thrones of Europe. Between them they will reign over a large proportion of the habitable globe, for no other State can compare for a moment in extent with the dominions of England and Russia. In these reflections the King of DEICHARIE, as father and as monarch, must feel a natural pride; they must help to support him under the complicated mis fortunes of his dynasty and the threatening aspect of the political horizon. The affection of his chil.. dren will enable him to participate in some degree in their good, and we trust that through their agency brighter days may yet dawn on the gallant and unfortunate little kingdom of the North. CHARLTON FAIR AND THE POLICE.—The annual three days' pleasure fair known as Horn Fair was held during the past week at Old Charlton, and, as usual, was visited by many thousands of persons from the metro polis and elsewhere. A considerable number of pickpockets and card-sharpers were arrested by the police, and charged before Mr Traill, at the Woolwich Police Court, who, in some flagrant cases, iLflicted a slight imprisonment; but the majority of the prisoners were discharged, and the ma gistrate remarked that he was surprised the police authori ties should take the trouble to protect the idle people who visited this fair. If persons chose to go to such a _dace, they ought to do it at their own risk ; and if the refuse of sec' qty were allowed to run loose there, it would result perhaps in this annual nuisance dying out. At all events the public ought not to be taxed and inconvenienced in order that the police might look after the profligate persons who made up the assembly. Police-sergeant Seymour said that Sir Thos. M. Wilson, the owner of the land, applied for the assistance of the police to preserve order at the fair, which was held under a charter, and could not be put down. Mr Traill said he was not so sure of that. Tho police ought not to have granted the assistance asked for. At all events, he (Mr Traill) should not put the county to more expense than he was obliged by sending these persons to prison. He might certainly convict them under the Vagrant Act, but should not do so, as, for all he knew, it might be the object of per sons interested in this fair to allow such things. The owner should himself look after the conduct of the persons whom he admitted to his land. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER ' S TELEGRAMS.) PRUSSIA. BERLIN, OCT. 24. Prince Gortschakoff, who had hitherto accom panied the Czar, is expected here on the 27th inst., when he will await the arrival from Nice of the Emperor and Herr von Bismark. FRANCE. ST. NAZAIRE, OCT. 24. The French mail steamship from Vera Cruz arrived here today. She brings 103,000 dollars in specie. Her arrival was delayed by a storm which lasted nine days. BOURSE, O. 22.—The market has been buoyant, and a good amount of business transacted at a further improvement. Threes, for the Account, are now at 65f. 5c., and Mobilier at 902 f. 50c. Rail way Market without much animation, but prices in general well maintained up to the present hour. The market continued firm to the close, and left off as follows : 41 per Cents .. 91 85 Do. end month.... -- 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 Credit Mobilier 903 75 Do, tend month 9OO Bank Shares 3380 Credit Fonder 1165 Roman Italian Loan 65 70 Do. end month 65 60 Ditto Threes — New Mexican Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 45 Home Debt Deferred RAIL WAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans ~... 825 .. 830 Northern .... Lyons and Mediterranean 895 .. 895 Southern 6OO = . . 597 t 0 Western Eastern Sardinian Austrian - .. 438 75 Lombard North of Spain ... Saragossa.. 472 50 .. 470 Ditto to Barcelona - .. 18) Non-Intervention in Greece. The following despatch has been made public " Foreign•ofce, S3pt. 19. " Sir,-1 have received your despatch of the Ist inst., reporting the request of Count Sponneck that her Majesty's Government would exert their in fluence with the National Assembly, and especially with the so-called ' English party,' to induce them to proceed with the discussion of the constitution without unnecessary delay. " You will state to Count Sponneck that her Majesty's Government have no relations with any political party in Greece, and only wish to act in concert with France and Russia in the general in. terests of Greece. " But as regarda the request made by Count Sponneck for the exertion of English influence on the National Assembly, you would say that, although her Majesty's representative expressing to any deputies who may speak to him on public affairs an opiLion of an early settlement of the con stitution, it would not be consistent with the prin ciples of her Mjesty's Government to attempt to influence the decisions of the Assembly, while to do so would be setting a bad example, and might lead other Powers to exert influence in some other and more objectionable direction. _ _ " Thelcs3 foreign Powers interfere in the inttr% nal affairs of Greece the better will be the prospect of internal tranquillity and external peace for that kingdom.--I am, &a., " The lion. E. M. Erskine." " RUSSELL. The Bank Return of Last Week. (From the Economist.) The return of the Bank of England for the week ending Wednesday evening last is a very remark able one, and well deserves a careful study. The payment of the dividends hes intervened between this recount and the last, and this is always nr. favourable to the banking reserve, because a cony siderable amount goes in notes to the humbler classes, who do not keep blnking accounts. The circulation outside the Bank increases, and the Bank reserve is diminished often to the extent of a million. Now, there has been only the most trifling diminution of the banking reserve (only £1,420), and no increase in the active circulation worth attention. Let us consider why such has been the case, The first reason we believe to be the great dear ness of money. Oa the sth of October, last Wed nesday fortnight, the Bank account showed a dimi nution of £1,236,503 in the reserve of notes and coin in consequence of the usual payment of salaries, &c., at the close of the quarter. These, like the dividends, go out to the non-banking classes, who have no deposit accounts, and gradually return as they make their payments to their tradespeople and other creditors who have banking accounts This exceptional issue has now returned to the Bank. The higher the value of money the quipker it tends to return. Everybody who has money does not let it sleep; perhaps, indeed, the clerk does not pay his tradespeople quicker, bat as soon as a tradesman gets money when it is so valuable be hastens to make use of it—he sends it to his banker; his banker directly or indirectly, sends it to the Bank. There is no expedient for contracting the t active circulation like giving people a good bonus bringing the notes home. Some part even of the dividend issue may have been brought back by this potent cause, and, at q a u l a l rter events, the exceptional issue at the end of the has now been brought back. This cause is an action of the public, not an action of the Bank ; but the return itself, however, shows that the Bank has by no means been idle. _ First, they have decreased their other securities, their loans, more than £2,000,000. This is natural when the loans given at the close of the quarter are paid back, but in the present peculiar state of the discount market we could not feel certain bGfore hand either that these loans would not be renewed, or that they would not be replaced by other loans. It is very satisfactory to find that so much has been repaid, and that the public have not pressed for other accommodation to replace it. Secondly, the Bank has sold or borrowed on se curities to a large extent. On Oct. 5 Government securities were ~ 19 If Diminution in a fortnight .... • There is some doubt whether the reduction in the Government securities or in the private securities strengthens the Bank reserve immediately ; but there can ba no doubt that both o perations augment the command of the Bank of England over the mar ket. They strengthen its means of lending, and give it an option whether it will lend or not. They give the Milk an additional control over the value of money even if—which is a moot point—they do not actually bring in more notes. On the whole, this week has had a favourable effect upon the money market. People's minds are calmer, and though no wise min believes that the pressure is at an end, few expect now to see actual and wild panic. The failures in Brazil are expected to have a greater effect on the Continent than here, though every shock to credit is felt here in some measure. Tho drain of bullion to India is stayed with singular completeness. The Council of India, who lately had many times more applications for bills on India than they had bills to grant, this week actually could not sell their bills. We have, ac cording to a phrase we have heard used, ditcounted November, and so may, perhaps, look forward to that dismal month with less a pp•ehension than some weeks since would have been reasonable. THE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE AND DEATH AT BRIGHTON.—The coroner's inquiry into this case was concluded on Friday. From the evidence, reported at length in the _Brighton _Herald, it appeared that Mr Whateley, a surgeon, expressed his opinion that death arose srom exhaustion, want of food for 36 hours, and exposure on a severely cold and windy night. The coroner was sum ming up when the foreman interrupted him, and said the jury were of opinion that death arose from exhaustion and exposure, all arising from temporary. insanity, cud a verdic t to that effect was recorded, Abolitionism and the Negro. (From the _lndex.) The record of the negro race is a sad and inscrutable enigma, If ever it was justifiable to say, " Behold the cursa &:( he Eternal I" it would be so in respect to the history of the negro. Metory I Bitter mockery I The negro has no history, From the days when the sable sons of AL:ea were the slaves of the Kings cf Egypt until this hour, when clad in Lincoln's livery they are driven into the very jaws of death, their existence has been a blank—a perfect blank. They have no trophies. I hey have left no tracings on the sand of time. When not savages they have been slaves. The monuments of antiquity raised by their labour were designed and directed by others. When they have app:ared in history, it has been as tools to be cast aside and forgotten when the work was accomplished. So far as the historian can discern : literature and ert, govain meat, and all other sciences, owe no more to the negro race than to the generations of African cattle. Yet, uegroes are not cattle, and hence it is that their career is a riddle. Not only have they thei: place in nature, but they are !umbers of the human family. Intellectually in ferior to white people, as children compared to Caucasian tribes, they are nevertheless men—men who, as the insti tution of negro slavery in the South shows, may be a blessing to their generation, in whose hearts kindly treat ment begets grateful affection, who are capable of social progress, who under favourable circumstances are happy, and who above all else have aspirations for immortality, and, like the white man, are supported by the faith and rejoice in the promises of Christianity. The aboli'ionist may tell us in his frenzy that the negro is intellectually equal to the white man. But what avails mere assertion in the face of the facts that we have cited ? We are not afraid of the ti uth. We assert tie negro's intellectual in feriority whilst we stoutly maintain his human brotherhood. And because of his humanity and of his mental childhood, we are incensed and appalled at the brutal—nay, the expres sion is inadequate—at the fiendish melignity with which he is persecuted by the abolitionists of New England, What shou , d we say of those who would cot..upt childten, incite them to commit infamous and bloody deeds, mean while robbing their v'ctims and subjecting them t) the vilest uses; and who, to paraphrase Mr. Lincoln , would drive them into slaughter-pens as a butcher does sheep ? No language is power,ul enough to properly denounce such crimes, and neither can any one fairly express the deles`a tion inspirl by the consideraJon of the horrible suffe:ngs that New Eng'and abolitionism has inflictA on the negroes who, by the cruel forttine of war, have fa'len wider its merciless end abominable yoke. It was inevitable that the invasion of the South should do harm to the negroes, because they are a component part of the nation, end therefore enjoy the prosperity a d suffer frcm the adversity that lights u Jon their homes and country. It was not ; however, to be supposed that 'hey would have been, as they have been the victims of the mostru hless passious of the invaders. What has the negro done unto the North that should be persecuted with bloody and unparalleled ferocity ? What raised New Yo k to the rank of en Era• pire city, aid I.ned her streets with marble palaces? The profits realised from dealing in the products of negro la bour. And what laid the foundation of the greatrezts of Boston ? Not emanc'pation, not any them.) , of right, not righ'cousness or philanthropy. The middle passage was re volting, but it was profitable; and the sett-dubbed saints of New Eneland waxed rich by, the zealous pursuit of a hi:3ll:y remunerative slave trade. Why should New Englend hate the race that has given her riches? Because, forsooth, the negro is the cause of the dissolution of the Union. The North knows lull well that negro slavery was not the ca tee of secession, and it is not in the way of reunion. The Scuth would have left the North even if the Go ya-, ament of England had not forced her to receive tue negto slaves brought to her por' 1 in English and Yankee ships ; and if the South would return to the Union, slavery would be no obstacle, and abolLionism would be no more heard of. We umlers:. - md why Mr Uncoln to deport the negror - ; to a remote place where they might die out. Mr Lincoln ie from the West, and Western men, tharks 4 :3 the insidious teaching of New Eng'and, have always been in tolerant of the preance of the negro, end from a fee - that free labour might compose vv:th white labour, have made it penal for negroes to reside in their States. We understand why the Irish settlers have an antip-thy to the negro, for the unscrupulous abolitiolists have :old them that the negro will interfere with their labour. But we do not understand why New England &2ould so haze the negro. Is it a mere savage instinct that makes her prone to oppress the helples ? We cannot tell. The motive is problematical, but the fact is hideously glaring. This hate is not of recent growth, though the war has amazingly developed it. From first to last the North hrs behaved inhumanly t 3 the negro. We have seen how the Yankees,for the sake of gain, were ac:ive participators in the slave trade. .While the Southerners were peLition'ag the Home Government to send them no more negroes, the merchants of Boston were importing living cargoes and selling them by auction. Nor were they without an excuse. They declared that they were engaged in a holy mission. They were rescuing the " blacks" corn savage life and heatheatsm, and bringing them into a Christian lend. So long as slave labour was profitable in the Northern Stites, Lo long did the Northerners keep slaves. When 'he influx of emigrants and a change in the cultivation of the roit rendered slave labour unprofitable, slavery was abo!ished. What did the New Englanders with their slaves? Eman cipate them ? What I the sa'nts of New England sacri • flee property for the sake of a professed prig ? That phenomenon has not yet happened. No; the New Englanderi sold their slaves to the South—sold the fathers :nd mothers f the slaves they arc now seeking to destroy in th 3 name of philanthropy. Thenceforth the negro had no rest in the North. He was free, but he was a leper. Happy for the Northern slaves that the South (mid pur chase them, fcr otherwise they would have perished from sheer neglect end misery. The free negro has not prospered in the North. From 1810 to 1850 the census of the United States ;nforms us that in the South the free negroes in creased from 170,335 to 210,955, and in the north from 215,968 to 223,248—that is, in the South about 25 per cent., and in the North about 3 per cent. And this difference cannot be mainly ascribed to the Southerners freeing their slaves, for we find that in the same period tha slave popu lation advanced from 2,519,087 to 3,112,806—0 r at the rate of nearly 20 per cent. So the negroes in the South were more than six times as prolific as the negro in the South. We suppose that few persons will deny that prolificacy is an unerring test of comparative happine!s, prosperity, and virtue. The war, as we have said, has emaz:ngly developed the long existing hate to the negro. What can be more wonderful than the demoralisation of the negroes that have been ".reed I" We might have expected some, but were not prepared for such a rapid and fearful deterioration. We learn from the United States census that in 1850 in every 10,000 coloured persons, excluding slaves, there were in the State prisons and peni' entiaries :—ln the slave holding States, •938; free States, 28143. Not quite one in 10,000 of the negroes in the South were in prison, while of the free negroes in the North there were more than 23 in 10,000. But this, we repeat, did not prepare us for what has occurred. In the South we see the fruits of 70 years of a humane and civilising treatment. All the incentives of the North have not succeeded in shaking the fidelity of the negroes to their masters, or in making them faithless to the principles of our holy religion. Mr Lincoln's invitation to them to rise up and murder the families of their masters—. for such is the only meaning of what he is pleased to call a military measure and a proclamation of emancipation—has proved a lwutum fulmcn, and has been utterly disregarded, Whilst the Southerners have been fighting their battles, the negroes have in no instance plundered their masters' property, or been other than good servants to the white women and children. But mark what has lyen the con duct of those who have been dragged into the clutch of abolitionism. Look at the horrible massacres per petrated by negro soldiers. Look at the host of coloured prostitutes that swarm in the Federal camps. Look at the Federal officers parading the towns with theirnegro wenches. But decency forbids that we should unveil the filthy orgies of miscegenation. The condition of the negro in the North is at this mo ment heartrending as well as loathsome. See the freed negroes on the Mississippi—freed, but forced to labour for less rations and less money perquisites than the slaves obtain, while even these rations and this money are kept from them. There they are in shoals literally rotting away. They are hungry, and the Yankee commissariat officers purloin their food; they are sick, and the Yankee doctors will not tend them, though they pocket fees for so doing; and so the freed negroes rot away in hunger, dirt, and disease. We write not thus on Confederate testimony. A Federal inspector testifies to the shocking state of the negroes on the Federal Government plantations; and Federal papers publish graphic accounts of the sufferings and the degradation of the coloured race. But the climax of abolitionist eavagry towards the negro is conscripting him and placing him in the battlefield where there is no escape from death or mutilation. TheFoderal Genera's and the Federal Government evince the most callous contempt for the lives of the mercenaries they command. Grant is not censured for sacrificing 50,000 lives:to reach a position that he could have gained without the loss of a man. Because the terms of service of some of the Federal prisoners in the South have expired, the Federal authorities will not exchange them. For the German and Irish recruits there is no more feeling than for the guns they carry , but for the negroes there is, besides callous contempt, a magnificent delight in their torture and carnage. The Earl of Chatham denounced in wither ing language the proposed employment of Indians in the first war of American Independence, But what is there in such a scheme to compare with the employment of negro soldiers ? The Indian is a warrior, and he fights with out dread. The Indian does not need the a inaulus of the bayonet to make him face the enemy. With the negro it is altogether different, and especially with the negroea in the Federal service. They shrink from the conflict, and above all from a conflict with those who have gov.. , rnci them from the hour of their birth, and whom ere the war began they loved and reverenced. But the trembling creat tares have no chance. Drugged with whisky, uncle: cover of Federal guns, and pricked en with Federal bayenete, they are driven to "the post of honor::." The rest is soon told. The hiss ., ing bullets and the whirring shells of the Courederates fall ing amongst them, and, palsied with fear, they crouch in the slaughter-pen. To advance is death, to flee is death, and so they remain until the dead and dying form a wall, between the Confederates and Mr Lincoln's drovers. How true this is may be seen from the Northern accounts of the fight be fore Petersburg, and of the late action on the junction of the Varina and Newmarket Roads. One story is so exact a repetition of the other that it will suffice to notice the last. Birney's coloured brigade had to assault the Confe derate works. Before the works was a ditch, into which 2,000 negroes huddled. Let the correspondent of the Ncw York Times narrate the rest:—" About 2,000 of the ne groes got int) this ditch and never came back. At least 20 of them climbed on the parapet of the fort and were shot dead, tumbling back upon their comrades. The rest, it is said, were slaughtered by the enemy with shells thrown among them by hand." How awful yet how vivid is the picture I Out of the terrified creatures only 20 ventured to put their heads above the parapet. But, since they could not advance, why did they not retreat ? 'We aro writing of negroes, not of white troops. Retreat I 'What to ? What would they gain? Are the Confederate balls mere deadly than those of the Federals 1 1 But they had not even courage to retreat if retreat had been possible. Bereft of reason, screeching with agony, the quivering mass of black flesh did not attempt to emerge from the grave into which they had been driven. There they were, the living, and the ,dead, and the dying, until the work was done ; the white troops looking on, but not helping them. So 2,000 negroes were slaughtered for—what for ? That Mr Lincoln may reign over 34 States ? That the loyal contractors may go rich ? That Mr Seward may keep in office ? No, for none of these, thuugh these are the objects of the war. Will it be pretended that the negroes are of any service to the North or any source of danger to the South Is anything to be gained by this horrible slaughter ? So far as the progress of the war is concerned, Birney might as well have sent 2,000 black cattle into the fatal ditch. We shudder at the crime, but we cannot tell the motive thereof, unless it is savage hate. We must turn from the sickening sight. To gaze too long upon it would inflame the imagination end make rea son reel. But we cannot forget such deeds. We cannot forget the Petersburg pit. We cannot forget the ditch of death with its 2,000 negroes, whom the correspondent of the New York Times, with grim diabolical humour, desig nates es "nameless black men who have won the title of hero." Do abolitionists believe that there is a God who sees the sparrow fall, and who is also the God of the negro? Nameless black men I Yes, but as precious in the sight of Heaven as white heroes. Would, for the sake of humanity, that the abolitionist could learn that negroes are not vermin, but men I Gui bone? Wherefore do we write ? Will words of ours check the persecution of the negro ? No I So long as the war goes on, the negroes that fall under Federal rule will be debauched and slaughtered. For them there is no hope but in their home—the South—being freed from the invader. What then does it avel to expose the utter depths of aboli tion infamy ? We say that England, that the civilised world, is bound to protest against the ruthless brutality of aboli tionism, We may or may not be justified in leaving the whole work to the South. But we are called upon to protest. There must be thousands of people in the North who have not bowed down to the idol of abolitionism ; and it may be that they will heed the protest. When the Great Avenger maketh requisition for blood, let us be able to plead that, though we could not save the negro, we denounced the conduct of his persecutors. This is surely the least that any Christian can do—it is surely the least that England can do, seeing that England planted the negro population in. the Confederate States. Naval and Military Intelligence. Major-Gen. Lord William Paulet, C. 8., Lieut.. Governor of Portsmouth, and commanding the south west military district, Las published, for the infor.. mation of the officers and troops under his command, the following letter, which officers in command are to read to their men on parade ; Horse Guards, Oct. 20. "My Lord,—l am directed by his Royal High ness the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief to convey to you and through you to the troops under your command, the satisfaction which his royal highness has derived from his recent inspection of the garrison of Portsmouth and the troops in the south-west district. "I have also to request you will make known to Colonel Gordon, commanding Royal Engineers, that his royal highness highly appreciates the zeal and skill with which his duties have been performed. " I have, &c,, "J. Yor.KE SCARLETT, Adjutant-General." Major P.lliser's gun, on the improved principle of strengthening the 68 pounder, has teen sighted in the royal gun factories at Woolwich, and is now ready to be forwarded to Shoeburyness to be fired 1,000 rounds to test its power of endurance. During the absence on leave of Lieut.-Col. Clerk, superintendent of the Royal Carriage Department at Woolw:ch, Lieut.-Col. Shaw, assist.-superin tendent, has brought into operation the con struction of iron gun carriages and slides bosh for naval and garrison purposes, which for a considerable time has been under consideration. Tue suggestion of introducing iron for the above named purposes met hcwever with so much opposi tion on its being proposea, that the idea was for a time abandoned. Several carriages, slides, platforms, &c., have now been completed at Woolwich by Lieut.-Col. Shaw, and have been approved by the select committee. One of the carriages and slides, adapted fcr 100 pounder guns, has been sent to the Excellent at Portsmouth, and others are in course of manufacture for the 300 and 600 pounders. A car riage is also about to be constructed of iron for Col. Shaw'a gun, now at Shoeburyness, on the muzzle pivoting principle, without trunnions. A wrought-'ron carriage for the 9-inch smooth bore gun on board the gunnery ship Excellent, at Portsmouth, has been received on board that ship with slides of the same material, from the Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich, and so far as it has yet been tested has been found to answer admirably, com bining strength and lightnecs with efficiency. In controlling the recoil of heavy guns fired with full charges four kinds of compressors are now under trial on board the gunnery ships: at the outports, viz.—Sir - Wm. Armstrong's compressor, the Excel lent's ditto, Mr Cunningham's ditto, and Mr Erics. sonPs (American) ditto. Some very successful firing has been made from the E xcellent with Mr Hale's large rockets. The sailing transport New Era arrived at Spithc ad with 56 invalided and time-expired soldiers and 20 women and children from regiments serving in India• She sailed from Madras on the 27th of July and St. Helena on the 15th September. The Imperial Russian scow corvette Rhinda, 11 guns, wh'ch anchored at the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight, a few days since,on her return horn- ward f-om service in the Pacific, is expectd to sail from that anchorage this morning for Croustalt. The following appointments were made onSatur dny at the Admiralty :—He-bert H. Gain, paymas ter to Devastation; Frank Pitman,assist.-paymaster to the Indus; Aug ustui A. Lyne, assist.-paymaster, supernumerary to the Victory; Hugh Duncan, engineer to the Indus from the Garnet; and Samuel Lloyd in the Hawke, promoted to be first-class assist...engineer. IMPERIAL TRAVELLERS.—The Franche-Comte paper states that as the train in which the Emperor of Russia was travelling was obliged to stop at Besancon for a few minutes to allow another train to come up and pass, his Majesty alighted and took several turns on the platform, accompanied by a magnificent black Newfound land dog. The Progres of Lyons, after describing the hand some preparations made at the Grand Hotel of that city for the reception of the imperial travellers, states that by order no bed was left in the sleeping-room assigned to their Majesties, as they always when travelling had their sleeping apparatus carried with them. The Salta Public of the same city says :—" On their arrival at the hotel the august travellers found two tables served—one on the first floor for their Majesties and their children, and the second in a room of the ground floor for their suite. The Empress, who was in a suffering state, was removed in an arm chair from the railway carriage to the apartment prepared for her. Sho was not able, in consequence of her state of health, to be present at dinner. but was served in her room, around which MM. Maria and Ce. the eminent silk manuracturers, had disposed a qu oatity of rich stuffs, as specimens of Lyons proJuc3. The Empress being anxious to retire to rest, sent word to those gentlemen that she would make a choice among the goods sent for her in spection on her arrival at Nice. The Emperor graciously invited Marshal Canrobert to join him at dinner. The Emperor and Empress travel in such strict incognito that positive orders were given that no one should be admitted to the railway station ; all the company's ssrvants had been sent away and the station-master alone remained to open the door of the imperial =liege. The Emperor end Em press were dressed in the simplest manner ; the Emperor wore a grey overcoat and one of those round felt hats with a flat brim which are now in fashion. As to the Empress, without giving any special details as to her attire, we may affirm that she was dressed with a simplicity that a bourgeoise would have disdained. When a lady is Empress of All the Itussias she may wear the meat simple articles with impu nity. On their departute Marshal Canrobert and the Coun• cilior of State, Prefect of the Rhone, received their Me.jes ties at the station end accompanied them to ;he railway etatio4." Tralrt HER MAJESTY. BALMORAL, Oct. 21. The Queen and Royal family were prevented from going out yesterday morning in consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather. Her Majesty went out for a short time in the afternoon, attended by the Hon. Emma Lascelles. Out. 22. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Helena, and attended by Viscountess Jocelyn, drove yesterday to the Lynn of Quoieb. Lyceum Theatre. • " THE KING'S BUTTERFLY." A brilliant audience assembled on Saturday evening to inaugurate the commencement of the season at this elegant theatre, and on the occasion a new drama, entitled " The King's Butterfly," 111 which Mr Fechter sustained the principal part, was produced. Although perhaps ono of the moat elegant pieces as far as the mounting is concerned, the drama is not a new one to the metropolitan stage, a version of it having been produced at the Princess's Theatre under the title of " Court and Camp," with Mr George Vining and Miss Any Sedg wick as the hero and heroine. The piece was very well placed upon the stage on the occasion we have just mentioned, bat to compare it with the splendid exotic produced at the Lyceum would be to set a dahlia against a daisy. Everything that the most lavish expenditure and refined taste could effect has been done, and that most certainly Will secure crowded houses for some time; yet as far as the drama itself is concerned, in a literary point of view, it is not one that is likely to be looked upon with much favour. The original piece, written by M. Paul Meurice, was entitled "Fanfan la Tulippe,'' and divided into seven acts, but in the version under notice the seven have been reducsd to five, and certainly had the five been still further curtailed, we should have had, to say the least , a much more compact drama, and one which might have worked its way into public favour. The story of " The King's Butterfly' , is, like most French dramas, extremely complicated, but, in brief, it is to the following effect A certain Baron d'Alvere has formed, with othere, a plot for unseating the reigning - minister of Louis XV., and substituting in his stead Count Maurepas. To effect this it is also necessary to remove the Marchioness de Pompadour, the King 's favourite mistress, and they hope to do this by placing a young lady, Alice de Rosel, in the way Of his impressionable Majesty. Plotting still furth er, the Baron seeks for some foundling to represe nt the heir of a rich relative lately killed in battl e, whose wealth he wishes to secure, and finds one to answer his purpose in the person of Fanfan• Fanfan, however, instead of being a pass i ve tool, turn out to be more than a match for the diplenla date. He save Madame de Pompadour from the fiery of a mob, believing her to be a citirde daughter, and falls in love with her. His passion is almost reciprocated. He is summoned to Ver sailles, where a marriege has been arranged for him by the Baron with Alice de Rosel—the Baron's ward—to make him sure of obtaining her property. Though Fanfan knows that Alice loves his foster' brother Gabriel, and is beloved by him in return , he accedes to the Baron's wishes, but only to out plot him, and save her from the Ding' His conduct lays him open to the cruel suspicion s and insults of all his friends, except Alice and her attendant, Florette, who believe in him' the moat violent in their suspicions being Gabriel and Madame de Pompadour. Fanfan, however, perseveres. He has the good luck to save the life of Marshal Saxe at the camp in Flanders, which gives him a certain amount of power, and this power he uses to save both Madame de Pompadour and Alice from imminent peril. The Baron, Wll Ol3 with the army, has turned traitor, but is exposed by Fanfan, and the drama concludes viisa the discovery that Gabriel is the lost heir to the pro perty coveted by the Baron. Madame de POMP" lour is left to resume her influence over th e King, after she has expressed a 'el strong platonic attachment for Fanfan, and Fan" fan, promoted to a high rank in the tur n !' by Marshal Saxe, is left to marry Florette. In order to give the above outline of the drama w e have had to omit various small circumstances which only tend to involve the plot in great compladb, but we have said enough to convey a correct ide a o f the play, which many, we think, will be of opinio n ' is not exactly the sort of thing to afford M r ,' Fechter an opportunity to display his great an d acknowledged abilities. Fanfan, the " King's Bu t ' terfly," is a light-hearted French trooper, with a great affection for his beautiful charger Minerva' but, notwithstanding the part abounds in nice little bits," yet, as a whole, it is not one that seeme d exactly suited to Mr. Fechter. To say that be acted with grace, force, and taste, would be bu t to repeat that which is already universahi acknowledged; there appeared, however, to be a something wanting to give a completeness to the portrait Mr Fechter had placed before the audience. The great effort was in the fourth act, where Fanfan listens to the villany of the Baron, and then, to sav e the life of his foster brother, he resolves to accePt his supposed rank, and thus, to all outward appear', anee, to become a participator in the villany plott ed against his benefactor, and a false friend to his much loved brother. Here, indeed, was a true out. burst of genuine feeling, and one which the audience were not slow in recognising; but the remainder of the part was only that of the brave soldier who from boyhood has folloWed the precept of his goo d instructor—" to suffer gaily." Mr Ryder assumed the part of the villanous Baron after the most 61 34 proved conventional fashion. Of course he dressed th e character very well, but, to us, there seemed to he a certain carelessness about his acting, and a ten dency to rant that made the part anything but a performance worthy of very high commendation• Mr. Widdicombe, as Ramponneau, the comic man of the play, evoked the usual laughter, but nothipg more ;:and, with the exception of Mr. F. Charles, who enacted the part of Gabriel very nicely, the other male characters call for no further remark. Miss Carlotta Leclercq, as Madame de Pompadour, was pretty and coquettish, but at the same time very stagey. Miss E. Lavenu made a good and loveable lighthearted village girl, end Miss Henrade an interesting but somewhat languishing Alice . Fanfan's mare Minerva, with her shining coat, he r bright fiery eye, looked the very perfection of horsefl sh, and went through her part in the per formance with great effect. Thus having notice d both the male, female, and equine performer s, we come to the "mounting" of the piece, and here, we begin to feel somewhat unequal to the task 01 adequately conveying a correct idea of the extrenle beauty of the scenery. Each scene is an elaborat e " set," but the penalty inflicted on the audience in the shape of tedious waiting—on an average 25 minutes—was, it must be admitted, somewha t heavy. The opening scene, a Norman village in th e autumn time, with its antiquated water mill cua rustic bridge, was exceedingly beautiful, Th e saloon at Versailles was another wonder of scent () art. At the rising of the curtain the room is do' covered in darkness, but presently the servants enter and unclose the shutters, when a flood of sunlight is admitted, which produced a most magical effect. Th e audience were in raptures at this novel construe' tion ; but scarcely had they ceased praising the beauty of the arrangement when the curtain ascended, at the commencement of the fourth act , and showed us the exterior of the Palace at Ver' sallies, with its interminable walks and alleys of embowering trees, the distance being most charm' ingly painted, which again called forth tremendo us applause. The came of the fifth act, th e bivouac of the French army in the Low Countrieas near the Mill of Loefeldt, was a niarvel of plc" turesquo design. The painter, Mr W. Calcott, of course was summoned, and, on his appearance, Wa 3 greeted with the most rapturous cheering. As a brilliant spectac:c " King's Butterfly' will certainly prove attractive ; so, it the literary part of it does net merit unbcunded spprobatioD., the scenic portion will be certain to produce 1 11114 versa! satisfaction, r